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Recent Examples of playfellow
De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales.
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Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playfellow
Noun
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His childhood animal playmates return to remind him about what matters in life, basically harassing him into becoming a better person.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2025
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More fascinatingly, this behavior was most commonly exhibited when the dolphin’s playmate could see it, suggesting the smile to be an intentional, friendly gesture.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in South Florida in 2018, said some of Jaime's classmates now attend FSU.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2025
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The murder trial of a high school student who admitted to stabbing his classmate to death kicked off in Texas this week.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Almost a decade in the making, and currently in post-production, the film will recount the harrowing story of the nine Charbonneau sisters and their childhood schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at St. Paul’s Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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In the limited series — which consists of four episodes that take place in real-time and are all achieved with one camera take — Jamie is suspected in the murder of a 13-year-old female schoolmate named Katie.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Its investigators also obtained video clips that mentioned North Koreans being on board and showed shipmates speaking in Korean.—
Choe Sang-Hun,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
10 Sep. 2019
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As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.—
Roger Angell,
The New Yorker,
6 June 2019
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Her Japanese teammate, Mone Chiba, was third with 215.24 points while Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn gave the Americans three of the top five.—
Dave Skretta,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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Dunk’s Brighton teammate Solly March is also expected to be back in contention after missing the 2-2 league draw at Manchester City before the international break.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Although so highly esteemed, the notoriously taciturn director would often frustrate his colleagues by his reticence to explain his directorial intentions.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Ramirez and his colleagues say that’s unusual, because typically once a building had been ritually killed and abandoned, something new would be built atop the remains.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
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Rourke was nominated with JoJo Siwa’s killer nomination, a power which automatically put a housemate up for eviction.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
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Everyone in the study began taking their pills once a day within three days of when their housemate first reported symptoms of COVID-19.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Playfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playfellow. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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